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here's our briefing on some this is the business briefing. of the key events happening i'm victoria fritz. later. we begin in washington disneyjoins the on—demand where a new ban on transgender revolution — as it unveils plans troops serving in us for a new video streaming service. military comes into force. risks to growth. after that in nanterre, france, the boss of the imf tells the bbc what she sees as the biggest threats this is the briefing — i'm victoria fritz. to the world economy. our top story: a trial opens over the 1994 sinking what next for sudan as protestors of an estonian ferry in the baltic defy curfew orders and celebrate the military coup sea in which 852 people which removed their leader lost their lives. and on the markets: of 30 years? and later in paris, thousands of young people skip school and take to the streets to voice their anger and frustration over the world's failure the investigation begins into why the first privately—funded mission to the moon to tackle climate change. ended in failure. after a decade of legal battles — now it's time to get a french farmer wins his case all the latest from the bbc sports against the us biotech firm monsanto centre. over the safety of a weedkiller. hello, i'm gavin ramjaun — and this is your friday sport briefing. americans bryson dechambeau and brooks koepka — are in a two—way tie for the lead, after the first round of the masters. six birdies, including this at the 12th for koepka, helped the us open and us pga disneyjoins the on—demand revolution, with a new video champion to 6—under for the day. streaming service — koepka posted a bogey what will it mean for netflix and amazon? free round at augusta, also in the programme we'll be as he aims to win a first masters title.
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dechambeau's late surge, including this birdie at the 17th, hearing from christine lagarde, gave him a share of the lead. the 25 year old shot became the first player in six years, to birdie each of the final four holes at the course. in the europa league, arsenal have a two goal advantage going into their quarter final second leg with napoli. aaron ramsey scored a warm welcome to the programme — briefing you on all you need the first in a two nil win. ramsey — who's leaving the club to know in global news, to go to italy at the end business and sport. of the season finished off a good team move after 14 minutes. big tech admits its products are recording just over 10 minutes later, you and those recordings are being luca torreira's deflected shot off listened to by workers overseas. napoli's kalidou koulibaly gave does this cross the line? arsenal a two goal advantage, or do you regard it as a necessary ahead of next week's second leg in naples. evil of machine learning? we know the first leg today was really important for us. to take good assault, a good feeling also join the debate — just use with our report with this the hashtag #bbcthebriefing. competition. i think we have an thousands of demonstrators have remained on the streets of the sudanese capital, khartoum, defying a curfew
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imposed by the military council which deposed president bashir. advantage. in the other matches — joao felix scored a hat—trick there have been weeks of demonstrations against mr bashir‘s for benfica — who beat eintracht frankfurt 4—2. thirty—year rule but his opponents valencia got the better want a civilian government of villarreal, to replace him. in the all spanish tie, the military council said the army thanks to two very late goals. would oversee a two—year transitional period and chelsea scored with less followed by elections. but there are many questions than 5 minutes remaining, to seal a 1—0 victory about how much will really change in one of the world's at slavia prague. poorest nations. our africa editor, leicester city host newcastle united in the english premier league later as the fight to stay up fergal keane, reports. intensfies. newcastle's 1—0 defeat to crystal palace at the weekend, means they're still not safe, the revolution isn't over, it simply they remain just seven points clear of the relegation zone, with uncertainty about the future has a new enemy. the new boss, of manager rafa benitez still hanging over the club. practice is already underway — general to past atrocities, for the chinese grand prix. as formula 1 reaches the 1000—race milestone this weekend. declaring the old boss, president it's a world away from omar al—bashir, had been overthrown. when the first world championship got underway at silverstone, england with a few words, he was deposed. in back in 1950. fast forward 69 years — an age when civil society is and lewis hamilton is the man to beat. challenging leaders across africa, the five—time world champion‘s record in china, is better the president had seemed on movable. than any other driver's with five
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omar al—bashir came to power in a victories to his name. military coup in 1989 and survived for 30 years through cunning and and finally, losing yourjob is one brutality. he was a master thing, but finding out manipulator of his own party's via twitter is quite another. factions. an indictment for genocide that's exactly what appears to have happened to florent malouda. the former chelsea and france in darfur in 2010 wasn't enough to winger, now a coach, appeared to be totally unaware force his departure. he was a pariah of his release by fc zurich. they say his exit was in the west but still welcomed in by mutual agreement, africa and the middle east but a which was news to malouda. spiralling economic crisis last year wakened decades spiralling economic crisis last year wa kened decades of spiralling economic crisis last year wakened decades of resentment and created this people's revolution. in you can get all the latest sports news at our website — khartoum, his was vanishing. for a generation which is known nothing that's bbc.com/sport. but from me — gavin ramjaun — and the rest of the sport team, that is your but his rule, euphoria is friday sport briefing. understandable. translation: i say sir mickjagger has shared an image of himself out to see him stepping down is enough and about after undergoing heart surgery. for us. oh, ouryoung people, this this is the first picture posted on twitter is such a big joy. translation: i by the singer since having a heart say the protest will go on until the valve replaced in new york. he captioned the photo: sudanese people are assured that "a walk in the park!" their revolution will not be stolen from them. and what of these younger the rolling stones frontman, who's 75, told fans he was, "on the mend" after postponing tour dates
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soldiers who sided with the in the us and canada. demonstrators? firing at building and, tell me what you think where they believed omar al—bashir about our talking point today. loyalists were preparing an attack. big tech admits that its product are will they accept that the old guard listening interview on those recordings are being listened to by hijacks the revolution? the front is workers overseas. does across alone? i was at here are deep and dangerous. workers overseas. does across alone? iwas ata workers overseas. does across alone? i was at a evil of artificial intelligence? let us know your thoughts — use the hashtag bbc—the—briefing. you'll find plenty more on the developing situation in sudan on our website. you can also download the news if you're looking for warmth you app.coverage includes this article outlining what has happened in only will not find it here, it's going to 300 words, as well as analysis from the bbc‘s reality check team. fill colder than it has in a stronger wind. the bees picks up on the day ahead but plenty of dry weather to come, yvette mcleod and it had recently, still some sunny spells. i've shut in scandinavia the first privately—funded mission to the moon locking atlantic weather from coming has landed but not successfully. using a small unmanned spacecraft, israel had hoped to become away. large and clear skies there the fourth country to make a controlled touchdown on the lunar will be a touch of frost around is surface, after the us,
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russia and china. our science correspondent the day begins but plenty of sunshine. some cloud is going to build after the sunny start, from rebecca morelle has more. the card in eastern scotland, some showers around. there will be very a selfie from space. the final hit and miss. most places will have images from the beresheet a dry day, the easterly breeze as i spacecraft. this one was taken mentioned picking up a little bit, that's a process that continues into the weekend. it's going to feel cold moments before it crashed on the lunar surface, the end of the mission that was set to make space is across the eastern side of the history. built in israel, the probe was the first privately funded uk, around 7— 10 degrees. 10—12 on attempt at a moon landing. missions like this usually cost billions but the west. a size 14 across an office with a pricetag of £70 million, this got them. friday night, some of the was space exploration on a shoestring. for the landing, the ca rd got them. friday night, some of the card will melt away and it will tea m shoestring. for the landing, the team gathered admission control but become largely clear. chance of minutes into the descent, things showers feeding across the started to go wrong. we currently south—east of england. there will be have a problem in one of our a frost as the weekend begins and additional measurement units. we growers ta ke lost telemetry for a few moments. —— a frost as the weekend begins and growers take note, at that. for the initial. it was soon clear there was weekend, the weather pattern looks a serious problem. we seem to have a like this. high pressure coming against low pressure, high pressure problem with our main engine. we are
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setting the spacecraft, tried to winning the control over the weekend enable the engine. the spacecraft weather but stronger and colder had crashed. we had a failure in the easterly wind. what i think we will spacecraft. we unfortunately have notice is that we could see some not managed to land successfully. we gusts of 40 mph on saturday. the child for east anglia, a bit of hail are the seventh country to orbit the mixed in. most places dry, sunny moon and the fourth to reach the moon's surface and it's a tremendous spells and for many places back into achievement up to now. for a team single figures. frost for many a who got so close, they will be sunday begins. elsewhere it should trying to find out exactly what went wrong but with other commercial missions already lining up to get to the moon, it won't be the end of stay dry with cloud building after a low—cost lu nar the moon, it won't be the end of sunny start and again feeling low—cost lunar exploration. chilly, particularly in the winter. let's brief you on some of the other stories this is what we are expecting this making the news. weekend. dry weather, by the chance a collaborator of wikileaks founder julian assange was arrested thursday in ecuador while trying to flee to japan, according to the country's interior minister. the person in question is thought for the odd shower, sunny spells and to be very close to assange, windier feeling colder in the wind. who was arrested on thursday frosty nights as well but it's just 00:06:50,611 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 to warm up again next week. in london on a us extradition request, after spending seven years in the ecuadoran embassy there.
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people who travel from the uk to conflict zones around the world, without good reason, could now face 10 years injail. the measure is part of new anti—terrorism legislation coming into force today. the home office estimates that 900 british nationals travelled to take part in the conflict in syria in recent years. turkey's electoral commission has overturned the victories of several candidates in last month's local elections — benefiting, in many cases, president erdogan‘s ak party. several mayors—elect from the main pro—kurdish party have been told they cannot take up their posts because they were previously dismissed from theirjobs, by government decree. security has been stepped up in algeria, where mass protests are expected for the eight friday in a row. demonstrators are calling for the departure of the new interim president, abdelkader bensalah, who was appointed this week.
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he has promised to held free elections in early july. the on—demand streaming phenomenon has revolutionised the way we watch tv shows and movies. netflix and amazon are huge in this space — but now there's a new player in town and it's a massive one. disney has unveiled plans for its own on—demand streaming service. what does this mean for this increasingly crowded sector? mark davies — boss of strategy consultancy, camberton — joins us now. what do you think? this is a long time coming. a pretty crowded market base. they got so much content and more to the point, a lot of the content is on netflix so it's not a questionjust of them content is on netflix so it's not a question just of them setting up as a competitor, they will be pulling away a lot of the things that
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netflix have to show their current subscribers so there is a win— win there for them and it will probably be something that you are going to have to feel you subscribe to. why would you feel that you have to subscribe to this? you might already have a sky script —— sky or netflix subscription. how many can one person have? look at the brands that sit low disney. national geographic, espn, whatever your area of interest in years, they own a major brand. ultimately, if all your friends are talking about things that you can't see, and you will be surprised. talking about things that you can't see, and you will be surprisedm terms of the people they families? i'm thinking about the pixar movies. is it i'm thinking about the pixar movies. isita i'm thinking about the pixar movies. is it a segmented audience? two of the largest films are disney films and three from 2016 and 2018 were disney films. i think across the
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board, the last film to appear on netflix will be mary poppins returns and after that in 2019, when captain marble comes out, that will be a disney film that will not go to netflix. across the board, they have such a wide range. i think there is going to be something there for everybody. as you said at the start, people are used to paying for streaming now. it will be $7 a month. people will feel the need to go to it. mark, thanks very much a french court has ruled in favour of a farmer who blames the us biotechnology firm, monsanto, for his health problems. paul francois says he became ill after inhaling a now—banned weedkiller made by monsanto. the company is considering its legal options and says its products are safe when used as directed. caroline rigby reports.
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the imposing building of lyon's appeals court, far removed from the cereal fields paul francois once farmed, but this marks the latest stage in a long legal battle for the 55—year—old. the court found us biotech giant monsanto guilty for the poisoning of mr francois, who used one of its weed killers. translation: it is a huge sigh of relief. it has been a 12—year battle, 12 years where my life had to be put on hold and my family had to suffer. mr francois says he suffered memory loss, headaches and stammering, after inhaling vapour from the now banned herbicide. medical tests found the hazardous chemical chlorobenzene in his body
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and on thursday, the court ruled in favour of mr francois's claim that it made him sick and that the product's safety labelling had been inadequate. translation: this decision is a turning point in the battle against big companies, the giant manufacturers of pesticides. today, pesticide victims can hope to obtain justice from the court. mr francois is reported to be seeking more than $1 million in damages, though any compensation will be determined in a separate future ruling. bayer ag, which acquired monsanto last year, says it's considering its legal options, including filing an appeal in france's highest court. in a statement, the german pharmaceutical company added that plant protection products... monsanto's products are used around the world. the ruling in france comes as it faces thousands of lawsuits in the united states over alleged cancer links to its bestselling glysophate based weedkiller, roundup.
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the company has already been found liable in two trials in california, resulting in tens of millions of dollars in damages — rulings bayer is appealing against. caroline rigby, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: who's up and who's down on the leaders board. we'll have the latest on the masters and the rest of the world sport. pol pot, one of the century's greatest mass murderers, is reported to have died of natural causes. he and the khmer rouge movement he led were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million cambodians. there have been violent protests in indonesia, where playboy has gone on sale for the first time. dragon will take a whole section dragon will take a traditionalist muslim leaders
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have expressed disgust. the magazine's offices have been attacked and its editorial staff have gone into hiding. it was clear that paula's only contest was with the clock, and as for her sporting legacy, paula radcliffe's competitors will be chasing her new world best time for years to come. quite quietly, but quicker and quicker, she seemed just to slide away under the surface and disappear. you're watching the briefing. our headlines: the investigation begins into why the first privately—funded mission to the moon ended in failure. defying curfew orders — huge crowds take to the streets of sudan's capital after the military seizes power.
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turning now to sudan's southern neighbour. since independence in 2011, the nation of south sudan has been in the midst of a bitter political battle between president salva kiir and his former deputy turned rebel leader, riek machar. the two leaders spent a couple of days in rome, at a spiritual retreat led by pope francis. as their summit came to an end, the pope reached out with a symbolic statement of hope. from rome, our religion editor martin bashir. this is not happy peace summits normally end. salsa dance leaders had spent two days on retreat when hope francis due matters to a close in dramatic fashion. the symbolism of kissing the president and vice is at its feet
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brought many to tears. this, after he had issued a direct unscripted appealfor he had issued a direct unscripted appeal for these he had issued a direct unscripted appealfor these enemies he had issued a direct unscripted appeal for these enemies to seek the common good. i ask you as a brother, stay in peace. i am asking you with my heart. there will be struggles, disagreements amongst you, but in front of the people, hold hands, united. south saddam plunged into civil war two years after gaining independence in 2011. after the president from the majority fired his deputy. 400,000 have lost their lives and more than a third of the
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country ‘s 13 million people were displaced. the latest peace agreement signed in september is supposed to deliver a unity government by next month but with few signs of progress, the archbishop of canterbury asked pope francis to invite leaders of south sudan to the vatican. did any of the parties expressed regret, repentance? there is a deep sense of soi’i’ow. repentance? there is a deep sense of sorrow. from repentance? there is a deep sense of sofi’ow. ffotti everyone. repentance? there is a deep sense of sorrow. from everyone. a sorrow of what the country has become. and a deep sense that they must take responsibility for confronting what has happened. each leader was given a bible signed by the archbishop and for a francis. with the message,
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seek that which overnights —— divides. the pope offering a dramatic justify peace divides. the pope offering a dramaticjustify peace as he kissed the feet of the leaders. it also allowed him to emphasise his commitment to a region of the world thatis commitment to a region of the world that is all too easily forgotten. while his work is done, there's is is about to begin. the son of a white police deputy in louisiana has been arrested over a series of recent fires at black churches. holden matthews, who's 21, is charged with three arson attacks on religious buildings. his father helped in the arrest. no one was hurt in the fires, but as the state governor has said, they evoked painful memories from the civil rights era of a very dark past of intimidation and fear. more women are running in the upcoming national election
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in indonesia than ever before. political parties are required, by law, to field at least 30% women candidates. and that means women from less conventional backgrounds are getting a chance to run. bbc indonesia's rivan dwiastono spent time on the campaign trial with a street coffee vendor turned politician.
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